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Nanoparticles for heat transfer and thermal energy storage

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1193390
An article of manufacture and method of preparation thereof. The article of manufacture and method of making the article includes an eutectic salt solution suspensions and a plurality of nanocrystalline phase change material particles having a coating disposed thereon and the particles capable of undergoing the phase change which provides increase in thermal energy storage. In addition, other articles of manufacture can include a nanofluid additive comprised of nanometer-sized particles consisting of copper decorated graphene particles that provide advanced thermal conductivity to heat transfer fluids.
Research Organization:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-06CH11357
Assignee:
UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, IL)
Patent Number(s):
9,080,089
Application Number:
13/627,749
OSTI ID:
1193390
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (4)

Latent heat storage above 120°C for applications in the industrial process heat sector and solar power generation journal January 2008
Synthesis of Inorganic and Metallic Nanoparticles by Miniemulsification of Molten Salts and Metals journal December 2001
Enhancement of specific heat capacity of high-temperature silica-nanofluids synthesized in alkali chloride salt eutectics for solar thermal-energy storage applications journal February 2011
Electrodeposition of zinc–tin alloys from deep eutectic solvents based on choline chloride journal January 2007

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